In one of those wonderful about-turns that only the technology world can trigger, a famous northwestern software company has abandoned Linux. Ashlee Vance, the trusty Chicago-based stringer for The Register, shared with the world yesterday the news that, as he expressed it, "Microsoft [is] running on Microsoft again." "After spending a few months relying on Linux for protection," Vance wrote, "Microsoft appears to have made its way back to homegrown code."
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